Moving on from the healthy touring resources I now want to look at a recent piece of writing that caught my attention. If you’ve ever...

Expanding upon the Biopsychosocial model discussed last week, I now want to introduce a helpful reflective tool that I have found...

Picking up from last week’s blog (where I concluded with some mental health strategies) I now want to offer another tool for our...

Staying in the world of the electronic musician, this week’s blog explores an important piece of research in this area called ‘Performers...

Tonic Music and The Christopher Meredith Foundation announce a new mental health support package exclusively for music agents and...

Side stepping from last week’s focus on popular musicians and tabloid-ism, in this week’s writing I want to shine my blog torch toward...

From my many years of being on the receiving end of tabloid sensationalism I’m rarely surprised by the British press, but a recent piece...

Tonic Music are providing a new online Peer Support Group in partnership with The Ivors Academy and Music Minds Matter for songwriters...

Moving slightly away from (but not forgetting) the grass roots world, creativity and other ventures, in this week’s blog I wanted to...

Tonic Music are providing a new online Peer Support Group for those working in live music in any capacity who are Deaf, Disabled and/or...

A This blog was inspired by a recent Tonic Rider Peer Support Group where we found ourselves discussing young musicians and a potential...

A few weeks back now the irreplaceable David Lynch left this mortal coil. "So what does he have to do with music and mental health?" I...

Do you have a local venue, when was the last time you went to a show? This blog was inspired by a recent post in Drowned in Sound and...

I’ve recently been doing some research into why music makes us happy (or not) and came across an interesting piece from Australia....

Tonic Music are providing a new online Peer Support Group for independent festival organisers and staff, in partnership with the...

This blog was inspired by a recent post (on social media ironically) talking about how social media and technology have contributed to...

So, last week (or so) the NME reported on the ‘booming’ music industry. It seemed quite a positive start for 2025 but it did unfold with...

Tonic Rider are providing a new online Peer Support Group for grassroots music venue staff, in partnership with Music Venue Trust and...

As we slowly get started in the new year I thought I would remind everyone of ears! Yes, hearing. 2025 sees me back out playing the drums...

Moving sideways from last year’s series of blogs on grassroots culture, I will now zoom out and look at the positive impact of the arts...